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Saturday, June 11, 2016

The Clinton University Scandal?

By Steven Hayward

Everyone knows about the problems with Trump University.
Trump should just be glad that Trump U didn’t have a Division I NCAA football
team, or else he might well have Title IX complaints to go with the class
action civil suit.But did you know that Bill Clinton was a university chancellor? I didn’t either.

There he is, over to the left. Moreover, he
was paid $16 million by Laureate International Universities to be their
“honorary” chancellor. Just think how much Slick Willie could have pulled down
if he’d been a real chancellor. Just what is Laureate International University?
It’s the parent company of Walden University, a mostly online, for-profit
diploma mill that is facing the same kind of civil suits and fraud allegations
as Trump University. Funny how the media seems to be uninterested in this
story.

Laureate Education has been sued over such
programs as its Walden University Online offering, which many have alleged is a
scam designed to bilk students of tens of thousands of dollars for degrees.
Students says that they were repeatedly delayed and given added costs as they
tried to secure degrees, leaving them deeply in debt.

The respected Inside
Higher Education reported that Laureate Education paid Bill Clinton an
obscene $16.5 million between 2010 and 2014 to serve as an honorary chancellor
for Laureate International Universities. While Bill Clinton worked as the
group’s pitchman, the State Department funneled $55 million to Laureate when
Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. That would seem a pretty major story
but virtually no mainstream media outlet has reported it while running hundreds
of stories on the Trump University scandal.

There was even a class action — like the
Trump University scandal. Travis et al v. Walden University LLC,
was filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland but dismissed in
2015. It is not clear why it was dismissed. However, the size of the contract
to Clinton, the payment from State and the widespread complaints over alleged
fraud should warrant a modicum of attention to the controversy. The controversy
has many of the familiar complaints over fraudulent online programs that take
advantage of hard working people.

Some of the disgruntled students have made claim about
high pressure sales tactics and poor quality instruction that sound exactly
like the complainants against Trump U.

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Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
In 2005, she became a co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, an organization that is committed to returning African Americans to their Republican Party roots.
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